
Coleman Weimer
Directing
Biography
Coleman Weimer is a filmmaker born in Iowa but raised in Thailand. He earned his MFA at USC and writes and directs narrative films.
Known For

Before Elijah sells his van "Theresa" for a home with his partner, he makes one final surf trip with his friends to the Oregon coast.
Breathe Theresa

When a poetry student joins her professor in the forest to search for an owl, she encounters a moment of wonder.
Owl Spotting

As American missionaries move into a house in the Philippines, their cleaning lady discovers an unsettling presence from the past.
Multo

An asthmatic Iranian-American high schooler learns the trumpet to keep a precious friendship intact, reconnect with his emotionally distant family, and take control of his fragmented life.
Breathe, Brother, Breathe

A middle-aged Chinese couple, illegal immigrants in the U.S. who do not speak English, must find a way to communicate with Americans and handle their daughter’s body after discovering her dead at home.
Can you hear me?

Two hikers show-and-tell the contents of their pockets at the end of a coastal trail.
Pockets

Short documentary following poet and pilgrim, Sherman, on pilgrimage from his apartment in Salem to monasteries in Mount Angel, Oregon.
Mount Angel Pilgrim

Mima, an American college student, embarks on a road trip to the rural Romanian village where her grandmother, Esther, was born. Her friend Jacob, a recent film-school dropout, joins her in the old country, along with an 18-year-old translator whom she found on Facebook. Decades after Esther’s death, Mima relies on her grandmother’s unmarked photos of the village and recorded oral history to orient herself in the remote area. As the trio scale walls and trek through fields searching for any evidence of Esther’s life in Romania, the deeper unknowns animating Mima's journey begin to reveal themselves.